You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
BARBARA SHERWishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
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In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
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Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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We all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
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